SPRING 2025 INTENSIVE [2]
[ APRIL 21-26 2025 ]
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🇫🇷 SPRING INTENSIVE [ 1 ]
[ APRIL 21-26 ]
📍Micadanses, Paris (Studio Biped)
LEVEL: Open to intermediate and professional dancers.
Minimum age: 15 years old.
This intensive is designed for dancers who are already trained. Prior dance experience is required, though familiarity with Graham Technique or Practice is not mandatory—however, it is welcome.
Monday April 21-Friday 25 (Studio Biped)
10h-11h30 Graham Technique
11h30-12h30 Graham Workshop
15 mins break
12h45-14h Practice (Yuval Pick)
14h-15h Repertoire Yuval Pick
Saturday April 26 (Studio May B)
9h-10h Practice warm up
10h-11h Graham warm up
11h-12h rehearsal
12h-13h public presentation
The guest artists will award several scholarships:
• 1 Scholarship for a Martha Graham School intensive in New York City (Summer Intensive 2025)
• 2 Scholarships for a Graham For Europe event in Paris (e.g. a cross-practice weekend)
GRAHAM TECHNIQUE
"The body is trained, disciplined, honored and, when the time comes, trusted. Movement becomes clean, precise, eloquent, truthful. Movement never lies" (Graham, 2004)
Developed by Martha Graham, a pioneering American dancer and choreographer, this modern dance method is based on the principles of contraction and release of the body. The use of breath enables the body to be fully felt and used in dance.
The session is generally divided into three phases: on the floor, standing and through space. Graham enables dancers, or more broadly anyone with a passion for dance, to explore deep emotions.
Practice (Yuval Pick)
For several years now, Yuval Pick has been developing a method that informs his dance, his pieces and the daily practice of the dancers in his company. It is centred on five fundamental ideas:
• The rotation of the body, placing the body in an imbalance that allows it to modulate and invest space,
• Weight transfer and rebound,
• Movement from the centre to the periphery,
• The ‘space between’ as a space for play,
• Each movement is an action motivated by an intention.
This enables us to broaden our physical and creative potential: the method is both a learning tool and a way of sharing our expressiveness with others through precise exercises and improvisation guided by images.
Repertoire Yuval Pick
Noémie will teach sections of Choreographer Yuval Pick’s latest work “Into the silence”. In this piece, Yuval makes visible the rich and abundant aspect of a dancing body. Inspired by Jean-Sébastien Bach’s Goldberg Variations, he wishes to develop a compositional and sensory approach that responds to the intervals produced by Rosalyn Tureck’s sensitive interpretation.
Classes will focus on exploring the two techniques side by side, to uncover their links, connections and echoes. Workshops will also be offered to explore repertoires of both choreographers who created those innovative dance methods.
FACULTY
Noémie De Almeida Ferreira
Lorenzo Pagano is an internationally award-winning contemporary performer whose career has spanned across Concert Dance, Theatre and Opera. He is currently performing with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet in the productions Ainadamar (Deborah Colker) and Anthony and Cleopatra (Annie-B Parson).
Christophe Jeannot
Lorenzo Pagano is an internationally award-winning contemporary performer whose career has spanned across Concert Dance, Theatre and Opera. He is currently performing with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet in the productions Ainadamar (Deborah Colker) and Anthony and Cleopatra (Annie-B Parson).
Tancredo Tavarez
Lorenzo Pagano is an internationally award-winning contemporary performer whose career has spanned across Concert Dance, Theatre and Opera. He is currently performing with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet in the productions Ainadamar (Deborah Colker) and Anthony and Cleopatra (Annie-B Parson).
COST OF THE PARIS INTENSIVE [ 1 ]
🇮🇪 SPRING INTENSIVE [ 2 ]
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📍 IRELAND
LEVEL: Open to intermediate and professional dancers.